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HOUSE LLANDUDNO

Interiors, furnishings etc. by Cecile and Boyd.

HOUSE WAKKERSTROOM

This retirement eco house was designed to blend in and form part of the surroundings , while framing certain views , and embracing others. An internal courtyard creates a sunny haven in the cold blistering wind in winter, and privacy and shelter from the wind in summer.

GOWRIE FARM HOUSE

The Gowrie House is sited on a large trout fishing dam , on a well cared for golf course .

The orientation , being south, informed the concept – a view site for warm weather , a covered verandah and swimming pool looking over a water hazard and the 9th hole. For windy colder days , the entrance court provides a warm protected enclave , where one can still sit outside enjoying the sunshine. The house has fireplaces in every room , for the freezing , sometimes snowy weather. The farmhouse ‘complex’ was developed from the need to reveal carefully designed exposed trusses. Each part of the building that is pitched is separated and connected with flat concrete , intersecting junctions , preserving and allowing the simplicity and integrity of each component of the design to express itself in a pure manner that is at the same time separate , and together. The scale of the project is thus kept to the right proportions.

HOUSE INANDA

Our Client wanted to build a barn so we gave him two – a small barn ( cottage) and a large Barn House.

The Barns have open ‘deconstructed’ trusses with volumes that lift the soul. They are put back together with black steel plates that contrast against the white oak ceilings. Roof gardens bring the landscape to he upper level , one walks onto grass from the main bedroom , and it screens the small barn with a clever interplay of seeing through indigenous grasses and trees . The glass contrasts with the rough brickwork of the barns letting light and dark define spaces, while the oak and charcoal screed play a different game of the same sort. Contemporary interventions jut through the barns where needed, leaving the roofs free from anything that might block the continuous flow of space.

HOUSE MENDELOW

MAISON FRANCAISE

We were asked to design a “Parisian styled home “ in Sandhurst , Johannesburg. We soon realised that Mansard roofs and the expensive detailing required would render this option secondary to the less expensive and probably more appropriate( from a climatic and cost perspective ) style of “Bastide”.

This is the style we decided to work with. Interior architecture by ourselves , interior décor by Sandra Bowler .

This house was designed with energy efficiency in mind , solar water under floor heating and a closed solar water system was employed , amongst other more obvious devices.

A central – forecourt that would have been the meeting place for carriages and horses becomes the entrance court for the mechanical transport , still housed in a stable like structure.

VICTORIA PLACE

100 unit housing scheme 2, 3, 4 bedroom designed in the Transvaal vernacular style.

Successfully built. Developer Foxlake.